Sponsors
This event simply wouldn’t be possible without the help of some thoroughly awesome event sponsors. Sponsors help provide the infrastructure for the competition, monetary support, and of course, prizes. Please take a few minutes to check out the goods and services offered by our 2010 event sponsors:
Infrastructure Partners
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Linode.com offers customizable, high performance Linux virtual servers for as little as $19.95 per month. Using the web-based Linode Manager, you can deploy multiple Linux distributions, manage your virtual disk images, control reverse DNS, utilize free managed DNS, and access your Linode out of band with remote console access. Linode cloning, a private back-end network, IP failover, and five datacenters in the US and Europe connected to multiple Tier 1 providers enable you to scale your deployment quickly, easily, and effectively, with support offered via a ticketing system and community forums. For more information, please contact service@linode.com or stop by our community IRC channel #linode on OFTC.
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GitHub is probably the most awesome way to share, find, and collaborate on code – both open source and proprietary. Comment on commits, watch your friends, monitor project development, fork your brains out, and contribute code using your favorite SCM and a beautiful web interface.
Heavyweight Sponsors
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Thoughtbot is a web application design and development firm, with a focus on building quality software with the Ruby on Rails web framework. We focus on building elegant solutions to our client’s problems; regularly contribute code to the open source Ruby community; and operate Hoptoad, the original “app error app”.
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Intridea is a leading web and mobile development firm, with focus on creating highly-usable apps for our clients. We produce outstanding results for our startup, government, healthcare, and enterprise customers using the best tools for the job. We specialize in Ruby on Rails for web projects, and create award-winning iPhone, iPad and Android mobile apps. Our highly-talented, distributed team of 40+ designers and developers create apps that function as great as they look. Intridea - building better applications.
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Tropo makes it easy to add Voice, SMS, and instant messaging to your applications, using web programming concepts you already know. A couple of lines of Ruby code and your app can be making and receiving phone calls, sending SMS and running as an IM bot. Developers get 100% free access to the platform.
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Koombea is a web design & development agency based in Barranquilla, Colombia with a small Silicon Valley outpost. Born as a two-person effort back in 2007, we’ve grown to a 30 people rock star team. Our team is divided in two: the Ruby on Rails development team and the UX/UI team. We can help you you get your web startup off the ground in a matter of weeks, by focusing on the Minimum Viable Product and iterating based on customer feedback.
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Active for nearly a decade, The Frontier Group is a web design and development team based in Perth, Australia. A team of 15, our core focus is building Ruby on Rails applications for startups through to big business, using Agile processes. We run the local Ruby on Rails Meetup and the Agile Meetup here in Perth, and there’s always a desk here if someone needs it. Oh, and we’re always looking for new talent.
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Chargify is a recurring billing application built by a team with more than twenty years of combined experience. We not only acknowledge the unique demands you face when it comes to billing, we’ve experienced them first-hand while running businesses of our own. That’s why we’re committed to providing a truly outstanding recurring billing application engineered for the long-haul.
Middleweight Sponsors
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Juicer provides developers with a hosted service for processing their image uploads. Instead of tying up their web apps with uploads and image resizing, they can use the Juicer REST API to get an image resized, whether it’s on S3 or hosted on their own servers. When combined with serving images with S3, Juicer makes scaling cloud-based hosting that much easier. Juicer is also great for developers who are doing a lot of image scraping, or who simply want to offload the processing of hundreds of images.
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Testing websites and Web-based apps is a pain in the butt. Do they render correctly in different browsers? Are they standards- compliant? Do they look and behave the way you want? The way you’d like? Mogotest is a verification tool for inspired designers and developers. We help make cross-browser testing easier, so you can focus on being more awesome.
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Screencasts.org is a new website dedicated to providing high-quality, thoughtful, in-depth video tutorials for popular programming languages, frameworks, design packages and other technology. We craft, edit and cut the filler, so the time you dedicate to watching each screencast is well spent.
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BDDCasts produces screencasts on Behavior Driven Development techniques in Ruby. Our most recent series walks the viewer through the process of upgrading a real world Rails 2.3.x application to Rails 3.0. The application we upgrade is URLAgg and provides more challenges, or opportunities for learning, as it depends on a number of gems and plugins that are in various states of Rails 3 compatibility.
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Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy premium custom stickers and skins. Send us your artwork and we’ll do the rest. Offering print runs starting at $69 for 100, Sticker Mule aspires to be every Rails developer’s favorite sticker printing service.
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Speedyrails provides High Performance VPS and Managed Ruby on Rails Hosting services complemented by a pay-as-you-go Content Delivery Network (powered by EdgeCast) and Managed DNS services in the Dynect Platform. After more than three years deploying and scaling up Ruby on Rails applications, Speedyrails has the experience and right tools to guarantee your sites will run flawlessly and with the highest performance.
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Zencoder does video encoding, as a service, in the cloud. Hook up to our well-designed API, and within minutes, you’ll be ready to process video, whether it’s 10,000 videos or just 10. Zencoder is extremely fast, uses the best compression technology around, and handles hundreds of video/audio formats (including obscure and corrupt files).
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oneforty is the Twitter app store. We help users discover thousands of apps that make Twitter more useful for work and play! oneforty is the directory that houses all of these apps and a community full of reviews and conversations to guide users to the right solution. Every character counts, so do more with oneforty.
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PostageApp.com lets you easily manage email sent from your web apps. Think of it as content management for your transactional emails: create email templates, send personalized mass-mail with one API call, keep a “sent box” of messages, track what was opened and easily resend those that weren’t. Finally a way to get complete control of application generated email!
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Websolr provides the easiest way for you to make the most of advanced full-text search powered by Apache Solr. You focus on building awesome functionality with features like geospatial search, faceted browsing, and flexible language parsing. We’ll take care of all the hassle of hosting, configuring, monitoring and performance-tuning the servers.
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Your hosting needs are unique, just like your business. At Blue Box Group, we are experts in providing customized, scalable hosting solutions for your site. Whether you’re solving issues with your large Ruby on Rails deployment or you simply require a reliable provider for your app, our expert support team will be there for you 24 hours a day.
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Pusher allows you to quickly and easily supercharge your applications with realtime goodness using WebSockets. We take away all the pain of setting up, running and scaling your own socket server. We give you plenty of other cool things to boot, such as realtime event debuggers, an awesome event-based Javascript library and wicked usage statistics.
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Compass Labs connects marketers and brands with consumers while they are actively engaged in conversations about the products with others in their social networks. By interpreting and organizing natural language and extracting meaning from social content, Compass Labs is able to deliver highly relevant and timely social information for users. Advertisers leverage Compass Labs’ technology to reach precisely the users who will be most interested in their products and services, and, importantly, reaches these users at the exact moment they are considering purchase.
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JetBrains RubyMine — Ruby and Rails IDE featuring intelligent code editor for Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, and the complete tool-set for productive development with Ruby on Rails: graphical Ruby debugger, Git integration, test runner for RSpec, Cucumber, Shoulda, as well as support for many popular tools and frameworks Rails developers use every day.
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Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1000 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.
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Jaconda is more than just a group chat. What teams need is a place to collaborate on a daily basis without hassle. Add chat room to the Instant Messenger you already love or access your room from the web. It connects people in your team, delivers offline messages and information from other services developers use. Stay in touch, stay on top of the things, get information about commits, bug reports, support tickets in real-time.
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Prefinery helps you launch a private beta for your Web application in minutes. Prefinery takes care of collecting e-mail addresses, generating unique invitation codes, and sending invitations for your private beta. You can even create custom invitation codes, valid for a specific number of uses or duration of time. Via Prefinery’s Teaser Page feature you can create a fully customizable, one-page promotional website to attract potential customers and measure interest during, or even before, product development. Of course, your data is yours and Prefinery offers a variety of ways to export tester contact information, including export to spreadsheet, XML, Highrise, MailChimp, and Campaign Monitor.
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O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
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Cashboard is the preferred method of managing time and finances for thousands of business owners worldwide. Provide quotes to prospective clients, invoice them for time logged with one click, and get paid online via credit card or PayPal. Supports a flexible workflow - use the entire suite or pieces that apply to your business.
Lightweight Sponsors
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Railslove is a small team of passionate hackers and thinkers creating juicy stuff for the web. Focused on modern web technologies we provide application development services to our clients and partners and help to turn ideas into kick ass web applications. Aside from our customer work we are currently working on channelthing nybbl.me and ARRRPI . As proud co-founders of CowoCo Cologne’s first coworking space, we host various community events, such as the monthly DevHouseFriday or Railscamp Germany 2010
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You’re stuck in the system, a system that you’ve been put through since you were born. This system tells you that you have to go to school, and then to college, then get a job where you stay until you retire, and then you live out your days in retirement bliss. This system has failed. But there is another way. There is a movement where you can make a very good living doing what you love. You can be yourself and not have to apologize for it. There is a movement that you can join, where you will have the support to help you to not only win but to dominate, right from the very beginning.
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We develop accessible web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework, providing solutions that help you reach the widest possible audience. We also provide expert training and mentoring for Ruby, Rails, and accessibility for the disabled. We are strong supporters of the Ruby community and are proud to sponsor the Rails Rumble.